Cuff-holder



(No Model.)

A. A. MBIIAFFMi GUFI' HOLDER.

No. 448,532. Patented Mar. 17. 1891.

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NITED STATES PATENT einen,

CUFF-HOLDER.

SPECIFIQATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 448,532, dated March 17, 1891.

Application tiled August 8, 1890. Serial No. 361,503. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AsA A. MEHAFFEY, residing at Poplar Bluff, in the county of Butler and State ot' Missouri, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cuff-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

It is demonstrable that several advantages are obtained by attaching cuits to coat-sleeves instead of shirt-sleeves.

My invention is an improvement in the class of cnfteholders which are adapted for this use-that is to say, for attachment to coatsleeves-and the novel construction and combination of parts are as herein after stated.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view showing the cuff-holder attached to acoat-sleeve. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section of a cuff, the cuff-holder, and the coat-sleeve- Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same. Fig. Il is a longitudinal section enlarged, showing the position in which the cuff-clamp is placed when a cuff is to be attached. Fig. 5 is a cross-section on line 5 5 of Fig. 2.

The bodyA of the cuit-holder has no essential novelty of form or construction. It is composed of baseplate a and a raised portion h, having a lengthwise slot c. The edge of said base-plate ct is perforated to provide for sewing the holder to the inner side of a coatsleeve,as shown in Fig. l..

The novel features of my invention are ernbodied in the attachments of the slide B, which runs in the groove c of the body. The said slide B is an oblong metal piece having a T-shaped projection on its under side to hold and guide it on the body A. A spring cuff-clam p d and a spring-catch e are connected with this slide B. The clamp d is a thin narrow metal piece having its inner end bent twice at a right angle and pivoted in a slot in the slide B. Its inner extremity or toe bears on the free end of a spring e', that is attached to theunder side of the slide, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4. Thus the spring e tends to hold the part d, which for convenience is termed a finger, in either of two positions, one being at right angles to the body A, as shown in Fig. 4, to enable it to be conveniently inserted in or drawn out of the button-holes of a cuit C, and the other position being parallel to the body A', as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, which enables it to clamp and hold the cutt' `C in place. This action ot the spring e is due to the local relation of the toe of the finger to its pivot, as will be readily understood. The spring e may be constructed entirely separate from the catch e; but I prefer to make them in one piece, as shown. In other words, one end of the spring e is provided with lateral projections or lugs f, Fig. 5, which engage notches g, formed in the under side of the part h, contiguous to the slot @,and bent upward, so as to project through the slot and slight-ly above the slide B.

It is apparent that by pressing on the free end e the lugs f will be disengaged from the notches g, so that the slide Bean be adjusted one Way or the other on the body A. It will be further noted that when the cuitC is secured Within the coat-sleeve D in the required manner, as shown in Fig. 2, a portion of it is interposed between the catch c and the clampl'inger d, which latter lies flat on the inner side of the cuff C, and also projects backward,

so as to occupy the least space and not be ob-y servable from the outer end of the cult. The free end of the finger d presses the cuff C down on the catch e, and by imparting slight pressure on said finger the catch will be depressed, so that the slide B may be conveniently adjusted, as desired, to cause the cult C to project more or less from the coat-sleeve D. The outer side of the clamp d is roughened to prevent the finger of the wearer of the cuff from slipping when applying pressure to it for this purpose.

The above construction and arrangement et' parts enable a cuit to be readily adj usted farther out of or into the sleeveD without requiring removal of the coat from the wearer.`

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The improved device for attaching cuffs to coat-sleeves, the same consisting of the slide having the spring clamping-finger, the springcatch having lugs and attached to it, and the body having a slot and notches, as shown and described.

2. In a cuff-holder fo'rcoat-sleeves, the combination, with the slotted and notched body, of the slide, a cuff clamp or holder proper attached thereto, and the spring-catch having lugs," and whose free end projects from the slot IOO and above the slide, so that it may be readily notches and projects through the slot and disengaged by pressure apped to the iuterabove the slide, thus constituting a Catch for o posed cuff, as speeied. locking' the slide, as speeed.

3. In a cuff-holder for Coat-sleeves the eom- 1 f bination, with the slotted and notched body ASA A NEHAP FEL A, of Ihe slide B,the clamping-finger pivoted `Witnesses: to it, and the spring, one end of which bears G. E. GARETSON, ou the said finger and the other engages the J. C. BARKER. 

